Moratock Park is a public park in Danbury, North Carolina that includes the site of Moratock Iron Furnace. Union cavalry, under the command of

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, destroyed most of the original

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works while conducting raids through the area in 1865 during the

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. It was added to the

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in 1974.

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Map showing Stoneman's raid and Moratock
in

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